I am trying to figure out which specific websites Google Content network traffic is coming from, but in my Apache log files, the refer for that traffic only appears as http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?......... How can I find out the URL of the actual page? I've trying looking at my apache logs, using Google Analytics, using Extreme tracker - all of them only have the googlesyndication URLs.
"Is there anyway to see which specific sites Content Network traffic is coming from?" Not that I am aware of. Maybe there's a 3rd party tool/app that can help with this but if you're using google supplied tools (analytics, etc) I don't think you can.
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Yevlesh, if you apply tracking code to your adwords campaign, a tool like Statcounter can tell you exactly where your traffic comes from.
Yes, place tracking code and create a campaign ID. Then determine (through analytics reporting) which referrer is associated with each campaign.